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Diet with Hijiki

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Let’s Diet with Hijiki :)

Hijiki is a brown sea vegetable (seaweed) with rich dietary fibre and essential minerals. It is used commonly as part of a balanced diet in Japan. This is another free and easy to prepare recipe, Simmered Hijiki. The dish is commonly cook in Japanese home and restaurants. It is a side dishes and normally served before meal. There are many other optional ingredients to add in the dish like Aburage (dried tofu), sesame seed, konnyaku etc.
Cold hijiki salad topped with a creamy white tofu dressing and a sprinkle of finely minced green onion or parsley presents an attractive contrast of colors, and is particularly appealing on a hot summer day. Get this free and easy Japanese diet recipes and enjoy it today!

Ingredients:

1 oz dried hijiki seaweed
1/4 carrot finely shredded
2 tbsps soy sauce
3 tbsps sugar
2 tbsps mirin
vegetable oil

Preparation:

Wash and soak the dried hijiki in water for 15 minutes until it soften. Drain hijiki over a colander. Heat a pan and pour in some vegetable oil. Saute hijiki and carrot until them cooked. Add sugar, mirin, soy sauce and water in the pan and stir well. Simmer the ingredients until the liquid is gone.

Japanese Diet Recipes with Hijiki

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